Description

BARNSTAPLE

SS5632 NEW ROAD
684-1/5/214 (South West side)
Balustrade and lamp post to Rock
Park Lodge

GV II

Balustrade and lamp standard. Probably 1879. Timber
balustrade, lamp standard cast-iron on a stone base. Free
Baroque style. The railings extend along New Road, forming the
boundary of the garden of Rock Park Lodge.
Balustrade has moulded brick plinth with heavy turned
balusters of a C17 character. Lamp standard on square-section
pedestal with sunk panels with 4 gables and an octagonal base
to the standard. Standard, stamped Geo. Smith and Co., Sun
Foundry, Glasgow. Standard has heavy S-shaped scrolled
brackets; anthemion decoration and a scrolly ladder rest.
Tapering cylindrical lamp with conical finial.
Rock Park was opened in 1879. It was laid out by RD Gould.

Listing NGR: SS5627132604

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26665019

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)